I don't know which ISP you're using but I'm getting 6Mpbs / 30 Gb for NZD75 per month (naked broadband) from Orcon. That's actual speed not the advertised rate.
The cost of living in NZ is lower than the cost of living in Singapore.
Earthquakes only happen along fault lines. Most of NZ is not at risk.
There's more discrimination in Singapore than there is in NZ.
Hello Uncle Sam, you said it yourself that your internet is CAPPED at 30 GB per month. As far as I know, NZ has no uncapped internet. Once you use more than 30GB, your download speed drops to 64kpbs and it takes 2 mins just to load google. I think in Spore, with the fibre optic network, you can get unlimited 6mps for just 15 bucks a month.
As for earthquakes, NZ is not known as the Shaky Isle for nothing. The entire country lies on fault lines and even Auckland has earthquakes.
Discrimination...yeah I have to agree that Spore probably has tons more of it.
I disagree with the better uni though. But I believe the education system is much better and balanced. NZ uni is not exactly very reputable, its neighbour Australia is more well-known for that.
I judge an education system not by its ranking on some stupid website. In NZ, people go to school to LEARN and EXPLORE. In spore, ppl or should I say rats go to school to COMPETE and BACKSTAB.
Just interview any NUS fresh grad and you would realise many these clowns can't even tell you the basics of their field off offhand because they only memorise stuff to pass exams and forget everything. What is the point of going to uni then? I spoke to a management graduate who can't even tell me the 7Ps of marketing or what the Maslow hierarchy is. Spoke to accounting grads who can't even tell me off hand basic financial ratios such as P/E etc.
Uni and any education is about training you for a job and picking up a skill. In Spore, these clowns have made it into a meaningless rat race. That is why Spore can never produce world class researchers or Nobel prize winners.
The highest level of education (phd level) is about inventing new things, new researches and pushing the boundaries of your field. Sporean students view education as a backstabbing and examination contest. Sporean teachers are nasty, they view school as an army camp and screw their students up as much as possible. The entire education system is as screwed up as it can be.
If you love your child, don't send him to Sporean schools, the amount of needless competition, backstabbing and needless nazi like school rules will only mess up any sane person mentally.
1. I hope it can continue to maintain, but the amount of immigrants they keep bringing in might soon spoil it. Just like the perfect Singapore in the 90s is now spoiled by the vast amount of FTs with their arrogance.
Not to forget, NZ was the first nation to allow women to vote. Ultimately, different nation has different type of characteristics. Australians with their laid-back attitude, sometimes friendly and mostly crass. Kiwis with equally laid-back attitude and slightly friendlier to immigrants. Probably due to the fact that they have not witnessed a mass amount of migrants, might change soon as NZ wants more Singaporeans.
Singapore Govt is very shrewd, other form of taxes are not as labelled as 'taxes'. CPF and more. Not to mention, it is horrible to be old in Singapore. Government just cannot wait for you to leave or die so that you can stop taking from their 'pot'.
Yeah I fully agree. But NZ does not want more Sporean migrants, it is just a news that Sporeans spread to make themselves feel good. They want more UK migrants, which is why UK citizens have 24 mths working holiday visa. Sporeans get only 6mths while even the Chinese get 12 mths lol. They basically hand you a PR if you are from the UK and interested in NZ.
In any other country, they would have just called CPF a tax. But in Spore they call it CPF and have another 8-20 percent for tax, just to make you think you pay very little tax.
In NZ, you pay 33% tax, but you get free healthcare, 800 bucks each month if you can't find a job, 1-2k a month once you pass 50 years old and a lot of other benefits such as lone care giver, child care etc etc.
In Spore, you pay 35% CPF + 8+% income tax, you only get a variable monthly pension when you turn 50 years old. If your mthly income is little and you have little in your CPF, your monthly pension won't even be enough for you to live on. And you get MEDIFUND, which the government covers your healthcare costs if you are totally broke and need healthcare. But it is means tested and there are no written rules, meaning you are basically begging for it and you may not even get it. In NZ it is a standard 1-2k /mth once you turn 50 no matter how much your monthly income is.
Anyway, Spore is just a 20km rock in a very troubled region of the world. Msia or Indo cut off food, Spore starves. They invade, Spore dies. It is overcrowded, very vulnerable, a dictatorship, and they even cane your ass for just spray painting a wall lol.
Even Hong Kong is better than Spore. Yes HK is more crowded than Spore (bcus most of its land are hills which cannot be built up) but don't forget Hong Kongers are Chinese citizens and they can get a home return permit which allows them to work and live freely in China. HK citizenship may not be a very bad thing afterall since China is growing fast and being a HK citizen means u can invest in property and stocks in the mainland, which is very good investment.
Macao is small but Macanese are Portugese citizens and can always exercise their rights to live and work anywhere in the EU if they want to.
In Spore, you are just stuck in a concrete 20km hellhole FOR LIFE. No wonder Sporeans are so miserable, rude, aggressive, illiterate and disgusting. Most Sporeans will never be able to migrate because it is very hard to migrate these days. If it was easy, the entire India or Malaysia would be in NZ. Only 13% of Sporeans have a degree and I think only 5-10% of Sporeans overall qualify for migration.
